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ESS
Essex Property Trust Inc
NYSE· Real Estate· REIT - Residential· CUSIP 297178105
$282.45+3.04%Price as of Oct 23, 00:45 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Essex Property Trust Inc (ESS) is listed on NYSE and classified in REIT - Residential, part of the Real Estate sector. It is headquartered in San Mateo, United States and has 1,686 employees. The company is worth $19.47B and trades at 42.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 22.1x. Revenue was $1.89B in fiscal 2025, up 6.4% from the year before. Net income was $702.77M. The share price is 6.9% below its 52-week high of $303.35. It pays a dividend yielding 3.67%, and has raised its annual dividend for 28 years in a row in our records. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $49.32M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $19.47B
- P/E
- 42.6x
- Forward P/E
- 45.3x
- P/B
- 3.4x
- Dividend yield
- 3.67%
- Payout
- 156.26%
- EPS
- $6.63
- ROE
- 7.71%
- Profit margin
- 20.89%
- Revenue growth
- +3.10%
- Beta
- 0.71
- 52-week high
- $303.35
- 52-week low
- $238.46
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Cliff AsnessAddedAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$49.32M169.44K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Ken GriffinReducedCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$23.92M82.04K shares · 0.0% of portfolio- Renaissance TechnologiesReducedRenaissance Technologies · Q2 2026$8.75M30.01K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Israel EnglanderReducedMillennium Management · Q2 2026$808K2.77K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▼ -20.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $952.64▼ -4.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $261.68 | $285.44 | $247.94 | $211.92 | $352.23 | $237.42 | $300.86 | $245.21 | $241.37 | $232.50 | $239.41 | $206.60 | $143.51 | $146.65 | $140.51 | $114.22 | $83.65 | $76.75 | |
| P/E | 38.2x | 25.2x | 24.7x | 39.2x | 33.8x | 46.9x | 27.3x | 45.2x | 41.6x | 36.7x | 37.1x | 68.6x | 100.3x | 35.5x | 43.0x | 113.3x | 100.2x | 28.7x | 36.7x |
| P/S | 10.4x | 8.9x | 10.3x | 9.5x | 8.5x | 16.0x | 10.3x | 13.6x | 11.5x | 11.7x | 11.8x | 13.1x | 13.9x | 9.1x | 10.4x | 10.5x | 9.0x | 5.9x | 4.8x |
| P/B | 2.8x | 3.0x | 3.3x | 2.9x | 2.4x | 3.8x | 2.6x | 3.2x | 2.6x | 2.5x | 2.5x | 2.5x | 2.2x | 2.9x | 3.1x | 3.4x | 3.2x | 2.3x | 1.8x |
| EPS | $10.40 | $11.54 | $6.32 | $6.27 | $7.51 | $8.69 | $6.66 | $5.90 | $6.57 | $6.27 | $3.49 | $2.06 | $4.04 | $3.41 | $1.24 | $1.14 | $2.91 | $2.09 | |
| Dividend yield | 3.02% | 3.88% | 2.57% | 3.73% | 4.15% | 2.37% | 3.50% | 2.59% | 3.03% | 2.90% | 2.75% | 2.41% | 2.47% | 3.37% | 3.00% | 2.96% | 3.62% | 4.93% | 5.32% |
| Payout | 127.57% | 97.69% | 63.69% | 146.20% | 140.35% | 111.32% | 95.65% | 117.12% | 126.10% | 106.54% | 102.07% | 165.04% | 248.06% | 119.80% | 129.03% | 335.48% | 362.46% | 141.58% | 195.22% |
| Profit margin | 26.37% | 37.24% | 45.72% | 25.80% | 26.95% | 35.80% | 40.07% | 31.81% | 27.87% | 31.75% | 32.07% | 19.43% | 12.58% | 25.60% | 23.41% | 10.07% | 8.76% | 9.08% | 15.21% |
| ROE | 7.00% | 12.68% | 14.65% | 7.94% | 7.57% | 8.60% | 9.99% | 7.47% | 6.23% | 6.90% | 6.70% | 3.72% | 2.03% | 8.29% | 7.10% | 3.27% | 3.12% | 3.52% | 5.72% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$111.16
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$48.57
Earnings growing 3.7% a year plus a 3.7% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$146.54
Median P/E of 22.1 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$252.98
Median P/E of 38.2 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Operating
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividends
$718.48
Dividend growing 6.1% a year against a 7.6% required return, from the stock’s beta.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Earnings $139.81 (avg. of 4)+Dividends $718.48÷ 2 =$429.15
$429.15
5 methods answered, across 2 families.
$321.86
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$282.45
+51.9% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Real Estate, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEKEKE Holdings Inc. | $17.24 | 28.7x | 1.9x | 1.62% | 7.00% | $18.94B |
| SBACSba Communications Corp | $178.39 | 18.7x | — | 2.80% | — | $18.93B |
| HSTHost Hotels & Resorts Inc | $24.87 | 16.8x | 2.7x | 6.71% | 15.56% | $17.28B |
| INVHInvitation Homes Inc. | $27.53 | 25.3x | 1.8x | 4.36% | 7.05% | $16.26B |
| LAMRLamar Advertising Co/new | $157.51 | 28.7x | 16.3x | 4.19% | 59.43% | $16B |
| KIMKimco Realty Corp | $23.59 | 26.8x | 1.5x | 4.75% | 5.81% | $15.82B |
About the company
- 1,686
- San Mateo, United States